People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
DEMOCRITUSMany much-learned men have no intelligence.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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